Word: tenoritis
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...Mexico to begin shooting a film version of James M. Cain's Serenade (about the meteoric career in opera of a farm boy who hits the skids in Mexico and is befriended by a Mexican beauty), badboy Tenor Mario Lanza was on his good behavior as he met the press in San Antonio. He explained that he was enthusiastic about making his first picture in three years: "I don't want to be inactive again. Inactivity breeds inactivity...
...time in the world for the kids in camp; he pitches on their softball team, joins them in archery, and sometimes says grace over their dinner table. Once he brought Manhattan Jazzman Lucky Thompson and his tenor sax to the camp for a concert. There are 200 tape-recorded hours of Lucky's music on hand at Kenwood. Progressive jazz floats incessantly through the pines and maples. "Lucky is my rhythm man," Archie explains. "He plays while I skip rope, and this makes a pulsation which keeps me in time. We're artists who appreciate each other...
...make them into musical instruments. They divided the heads into pie-shaped segments, peened them until each segment gave on': a separate musical note when struck with padded sticks. For "bass booms" the drums were left full length, for baritones they were, chopped in half, for the "tenor pans" they were sliced thin. Then half a dozen Trinidadians foregathered, added maracas and woodblock players, and they had a "steel band." Trinidad alone now supports some 200 such bands, and the demand for the music has erupted throughout the Caribbean. A fine sample on LP is now available: The Brute...
...tunes of torchy temper, sung with a fine ear for theatrical effect, e.g., the long, aching swoop, the insinuating droop, the ecstatic quaver, the lilting bounce, the suggestive growl. Tenor Short accompanies himself on the piano...
That was enough for Brownlee. Last June he moved his family to Ellenville, N.Y. (pop. 5,000), enlisted the aid of a hotel owner and a tenor-turned-businessman. By last week 110 acres had been converted into festival grounds containing a 4,000-seat amphitheater, a stage that could be adapted for concerts or theater-in-the-round, and floodlights etching the surrounding trees-hemlock, white pine, maple and cherry. The Empire State Music Festival was ready for business. The opening concert (Beethoven and Brahms) was conducted by Holland's standout Eduard van Beinum; the next night...